Book. It is a dive, both real and imagined, in the other Russia. Faced with the Kremlin, under the USSR as for a quarter of a century under the regime of Vladimir Putin, these dissidents are fighting in solitude. But “With the feeling of being right”writes Filipp Dzyadko, grandson and son of dissidents. In Radio Vladimir (Stock, 224 pages, 19.50 euros), he tells a family story made of meetings, friendly and literary, over the Soviet tragic decades, then Russian.
These anti-Kremlin resistants “Are people sure of their right”explains the author by quoting his mother, to whom he dedicates his book: “Zoïa Svetova, writer and journalist, free, tender and valiant woman. »» Independent journalist, she still lives in Moscow. Filipp Dzyadko, he left Russia in March 2022, just after the start of the“Special military operation” Kremlin in Ukraine.
Radio Vladimir is a “Manifesto of secret society” which, for three years, has been opposed to the war of which Russia has, in vain, hid the real name. Filipp Dzyadko recounts the forms of this rebellion, various and creative. Green ribbons, knotted with hair or posts in front of the police stations. Graffiti, painted on the sidewalks or at the entrance to buildings. The labels, glued to supermarket goods.
With very clear messages, such as: “If my great-grandfather fought during the Great Patriotic War, it is not to make Russia a fascist state. »» For such acts of bravery, hundreds of Russians have since been sentenced to heavy prison terms. “Power is afraid of labels”quips Filipp Dzyadko.
Exile in Berlin
History is repeated. On August 25, 1968, just after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact, eight dissidents had dared to demonstrate their opposition near the Kremlin. They were quickly and suddenly arrested. Filipp Dzyadko recalls that, despite fear, they acted neither as heroes nor crazy, but animated by “Impossible shame and the horror of injustice”. Just like these Russians who, today, brave the prohibitions to express their opposition to the military offensive of the Kremlin.
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Source: Lemonde